Castlevania To Bleed Two Bodies?

Unleashing a new terror on the Nintendo DS, the first touchscreen Castlevania is already causing a panic in the streets with handheld game players. And if development continues on in a new feature being experimented with on the game, we may see the greatest horror yet: your face after your little sister beats you in a WiFi mode!

Although development on the mode is entirely conceptual right now and may not make the final version of this game, the team working on Castlevania DS for Konami has been experimenting with a WiFi multiplayer mode for the handheld game. The feature is not necessarily a two-player game -- series producer Koji Igarashi mentioned this feature in an interview (which we will have the full video of on IGN soon) and did not elaborate on some of the pertinent details of the concept. However, if it is added, the feature would add gameplay and a different kind of strategy to the play of this action-packed franchise.

This feature would accompany another WiFi feature already confirmed for the final game, where players can trade souls between each other, as in the GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.

What the WiFi multiplayer feature the team is experimenting with is a Time Battle mode, where two players trade versions of stages and try to finish the level with full completion in as little time as possible. The mode would use the Nintendo DS's touchscreen to allow players to quickly scan the stage and precisely place in all the collectibles that must be nabbed for the full ranking -- you can't create the stage itself or assign monster placement, but you can put needed items in very precarious places to test your friend's skills. Iga did not go into detail as to whether players would be able to stay linked in this mode and battle on the same stage together or would simply trade the files and then trade back times when they were done to compare.

Whether it is added to this first DS title or is saved for another Castlevania down the line, we're eager to see what such a feature might add to a game that we're dying for any reason given to play again and again. Look for an update on the status of the Time Trial WiFi mode if and when it reveals itself as a full game mode.